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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Childbearing and (female) research productivity: a personnel economics perspective on the leaky pipeline
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Jasmin Joecks
  • Kerstin Pull
  • Uschi Backes-Gellner
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft
Publisher Springer
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0044-2372
Volume 84
Number 4
Page Range 517 - 530
Date 2014
Abstract Text Despite the fact that childbearing is time-consuming (i.e., associated with a negative resource effect), we descriptively find female researchers with children in business and economics to be more productive than female researchers without children. Hence, female researchers with children either manage to overcompensate the negative resource effect associated with childbearing by working harder (positive incentive effect), or only the most productive female researchers decide to go for a career in academia and have children at the same time (positive self-selection effect). Our first descriptive evidence on the timing of parenthood among more than 400 researchers in business and economics from Austria, Germany and the German-speaking part of Switzerland hints at the latter being the case: only the most productive female researchers with children dare to self-select (or are selected) into an academic career. Our results have important policy implications when it comes to reducing the “leaky pipeline” in academia.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1007/s11573-013-0676-2
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